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Chapter 15, Problem 77TAE

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Why are thick wires rather than thin wires usually used to carry large currents?

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Why are thick wires rather than thin wires usually used to carry large currents?

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The resistance of a conductor is given by,

Where

 is the resistivity of the material,

 is the length of the metal and

 is the cross-sectional area.

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